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Running those legacy apps
Yesterday Andrew McGill posted the message below on the Gauteng Linux User Group mailing list. Because he is not blogging I’m doing it for him. What he is describing is one of the biggest frustrations people have with so called … Continue reading
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Cat-like Robot Runs Like the Wind
DeviceGuru writes "Researchers at the Biorob lab at Switzerland's École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), have announced a cat-like robot that is claimed to be the fastest quadruped robot under 30 kilograms. The Cheetah-cub Robot, which runs real-time Xenomai Linux on an x86-based RoBoard robot control board, mimics the biomechanics of a cat to increase the speed and stability of it quadroped legs, helping it achieve speeds of 1.42m/s. The goal of the still-early-stage project is to encourage research in biomechanics, with an aim toward building faster robots for search and rescue, or ground exploration. More info is available on EPFL's Cheetah page."
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Tagged hardware, linux, open source, slashdot, software
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Tectonic
Tectonic is sadly no more. The links below are to its archive of the last posts to Tectonic. [ad#468banner] more....
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Tagged bsd, linux, open source, software, technology, Tectonic, war
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How to fight Zombies
Anyone that runs a mail server very quickly learns how to fight spam if he wants to do his job properly. It is also one of the favourite pastimes of the clueless to think up stupid ways to fight spam. … Continue reading
Posted in Bad Tech, Stuff
Tagged brute force, clueless, Countermeasures, countries, FUSSP, ICT, idiot, Mac, machine guns, mail, mail list, mail server, microsoft, network, open relays, open source, police, postfix, software, spam problem, Spammers, suck, Tech, ultimate solution, user, war, weapons, windows, work, zombies
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All Software sucks!
Wordpress, the software I use for this blog is great and has a wonderful plugin system that allows people to add functionality that is not originally included in wordpress. Unfortunately many of the available plugins are not so wonderful and often do not work as expected (advertised).
I have created this blog about a month ago and used some plugins which screwed me around mightily to the point that I deleted the whole lot and started from scratch. Being the total optimist I also upgraded to the new and supposedly improved version 2.5. From 20 years of experience with software I know that installing something a day after its release is really a spectacularly bad idea. The whole lot will probably implode on me again.
Here are some other systems I recently worked with that displayed serious suckage:
- Windows Vista: Run away as fast as you can.
- Openldap: The system with zero documentation. Unfortunately it is pretty much the only ldap server available if you use an “open source” system. Try upgrade this sorry excuse for a database system, and find yourself without useful data very soon.
- Opensuse 10.3: Is there any reason for the online update system to be as slow as trying to run through molten tar?
- Exchange 2003: Somewhat useful office memo system that people buy to run e-mail. Mere mortals like me simply cannot get this beast to be standards compliant, so you end up installing a “gateway” e-mail server ( postfix, sendmail or exim) to handle mail to and from internet.
Posted in Bad Tech, Stuff
Tagged authentication, bad idea, blog, e-mail, exchange, fun, internet, ldap server, mail, mail server, memo system, mere mortals, open source, open source system, openldap, optimist, plugin system, postfix, runes, software, suck, systems, upgrade, user, vista, war, widows, windows, work
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